An: My next story, I hope you will like it and please give me heads up if I have something wrong. Hope you´ll like it, this will probably be a short story max four or five chapters. And no pairings, this will be completely gen and bonds between siblings and friends.
Disclaimer: I don´t own Rise of the guardians, Brave, Tangled or How to train your dragon.
Chapter 1: Guardians get an invite
The guardians was gathered at Sant of Clausen, it was just three weeks to Christmas and North had asked his fellow guardians for help. They had all came and at the moment they were in the workshop doing different things, Bunny and Sandy was painting the toys, Tooth was sorting the different toys and Jack was taking them to the right shelves. Soon they all stopped for a short while, gathering in the globe room, North was telling them they were doing a good job.
Unnoticed to the rest of the guardians but Jack was a leaf, painted in the colors of autumn, he continued watching it and Bunny noticed he was not paying a attention to them and looked the same way the winter spirit was.
"Frostbite, what´s so special about a leaf?"
But Jack didn´t answer him, instead his hand shot out and he grabbed the leaf, he turned it over and seemed to be concentrating on something. Then he released the leaf and it disappeared in an orange light. Now everyone else also had noticed and they looked at their youngest guardians with curious eyes.
"Sorry guys, something has come up I´m needed elsewhere."
"And where is that, what was that leaf just now?"
"I don´t know where the situation is, I just need to come to the spirit´s aid. That leaf was his way of sending messages."
Before they could ask more, Jack had called the wind and disappeared through the nearest window.
The next time they saw him was a week later, he was coming in through the window his hair filled with autumn leaves, flowers and it looked like he had gotten a bucket of water over him before it had frozen due to the close proximity to his cold body.
"What happened to ya, mate?" Bunny asked.
"I was playing." Was the spirits answer.
"And where did you get flowers this time of year? It´s autumn bordering on winter." Tooth said, sounding rather curious while she was helping him clean his hair.
"It was ´Punzi´s' idea, she started it and then Hic and Mer got into their heads to ambush me."
"Who these three, Jack, we´ve never heard you mention them before." North asked.
"Rapunzel, Hiccup and Meridia, they´re seasonal spirits, like me." Jack said, sounding confused.
"You mean the spirits of spring, summer and autumn?" North asked for clarification.
"Well, yes."
The guardians looked confused at first and Jack frowned
"What´s wrong?"
"Nothing really, Jack, we just thought that you didn´t get along with the other seasonal spirits, or at least the summer one. Since your opposite seasons." Tooth said, sounding a bit apologetic.
"What gave you that idea?" Jack wondered, "We´re like siblings, they´re my best friends. We do almost everything together."
"But your powers and seasons are complete opposites, how can you get along?"
Jack just looked confused, he didn´t understand their questioning. But he tried answering anyways.
"Well it´s true that me and Merida fight each other a lot but it´s never in hate, we just tease and we know each other so we do it like friends or siblings really. Similar scenario happens between Hiccup and Rapunzel but we´re often together and do stuff, we do not hate each other. It would be a tough job if we did, since we have to get along when we meet to change season."
"But, but…" Tooth once again tried to come up with a reason for Jack to confirm the belief all spirits had had throughout the years.
"Why are you questionin' him? It´s like the most natural occurrence in the world, the seasonal spirits have to get along at least when they meet for the change of seasons." Bunny was getting annoyed, but since he was rather close connected to the spring he knew more than his fellow guardians, except for Jack that is. "I think, Tooth, that ye are thinking back to the time before Jack was the winter spirit, during Old man winter's time, he was rather separated from the other seasons by his own choice so I think you are confusing Jack with him."
Jack was just nodding, his seasonal friends had told him of the time before he had come. Old man winter had been a harsh and very cold spirit, being like the more negative side of winter and ice. Then he had faded and they had waited around a hundred years or so before Jack had come along, until then all winters had been very short and very neutral since it wasn´t any spirit to take charge of the season. So Hiccup and Rapunzel had to make their seasons longer to compensate, they had even gotten help from Mother Nature, but she couldn´t help them every winter since she had a busy workload.
"Guys, I think I have the solution to your confusion, why don´t you come and watch our change of season, then you can meet them for yourself?" Jack asked, he looked rather pleased with himself.
"Are ye sure Jack, not many spirits get to see the change?" Bunny asked.
"Yes, I´m sure, I was going to invite the kids as well someday."
"Is that really allowed?" this time it was North asking, sounding like he was unsure.
"Of course, everyone invited by a seasonal spirit is allowed to come, the only one exception is Mother Nature but she has to be there to oversee the changing."
Sandy dragged in Jack´s sleeve and showed him pictures of a clock followed by a snowflake, flower, sun and a leaf and finishing with a questioning mark.
"You want to know when we´re gathering?" Jack guessed the meaning.
Sandy nodded with two thumbs up.
"On the winter solstice."
"That´s rather late." Tooth commented.
"Yeah, but when we gathered the first time after I had become a spirit the others told me that before that they had not done the change at fixed point in time and the seasons was much harder to control since nobody knew when the change was to happened and could prepare the season for it. I remember Meridia telling me that she had just started a heat wave that would sweep over every country but then the change occurred with Hiccup taking over and the change in weather was so surprising to the humans weather forecast, we didn´t want that to happen again so we felt that fixed dates was the best. Then everyone could know when to start with the lessening of their season to make place for the next, it became a much more natural pattern."
"But why are you taking over so late into December, it is a winter month?"
"That´s because we choose the solstice for the change of spring to summer and it felt natural to use the solstice again when changing autumn to winter, but me and Hiccup can work rather closely so the last weeks were almost managing the season together, some places have autumn a little longer others have an early winter."
They all nodded, it made sense even if the change hadn´t occurred yet they could all feel that winter was on its way.
"Which dates have you set for other change of seasons?" North was curious, he had no idea that Jack did get the command over winter so close to his own holiday.
"The spring and autumn equinox."
They all looked rather sheepish, that was rather apparent.
"So do you want to come?" Jack asked.
"Of course Jack, it would be honor." North said, his usual jolly self. Hugging the winter spirit close. The rest gave their consent and told him they would be at Mother Nature´s palace where the change was to occur.
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